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Supporters claim smart derivative contracts remove need for central counterparties
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The winning organisations will be announced at events in both London and New York in September
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The swap execution facility aggregation model, which allows market participants to connect to multiple SEFs without being a direct member, is favorable for buysiders who do not have the resources to connect to all facilities, according to speakers at the TABB Forum Derivatives 2014: A Market in Transition conference in Chicago, on Tuesday. -
The access to electronic trading systems and the proliferation of technology over recent years is allowing all market participants to compete in the financial markets, advantaging buysiders and other trading firms, according to Zem Sternberg ceo & managing partner at Lake Hill Capital Management.
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Hedge funds are buying payers in iTraxx Main with expiries in May or June and strikes around 90-and-95 basis points. The trade is designed to hedge against a potential widening of spreads in June.
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Société Générale has finalised the acquisition of Newedge, buying out Credit Agricole’s 50% stake and bringing SG's ownership to 100%. SG has also sold 5% of the capital of Amundi to Credit Agricole as part of the deal, bringing SG’s stake in Amundi down to 20%.
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Vishnu Kurella, a portfolio manager focused on volatility trading at BlueMountain Capital Management in New York, has left the firm to join Caxton Associates in a similar role, also in New York.
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Speed has always been a defining feature of the trading process, especially across the very liquid equities and fx markets. Moving from the open cry through to the information age and high-speed computing, the quicker an order could be placed and the faster information could be gathered, the more competitive advantage a firm could gain over its rivals. As the new millennium kicked off, vast sums were being bought and sold in milliseconds, and an interminable arms race seemed to have become an industry staple, with trading firms racing towards zero latency.
